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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Facilitation Barcamp |  Agile Sprint Retrospective |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 15-200 | Scrum Team | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Improvement actions, Team agreements | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |